Top 271 Yankees Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.
The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.
All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.
The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.
The good thing is we got the Yankees three times at the end of the season.
To put on the pinstripe - it's extraordinary. Just being able to play one game with the Yankees is quite an honor.
I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.
I always loved playing in New York, where the Yankees fans expect a winning team every year.
I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I'm really rooting for the Red Sox.
The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees.
True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
When she was too young to resist, or even to understand, I turned my daughter into a lifelong, rabid Yankees fan.
As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.
I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.
The New York Yankees signed Masahiro Tanaka, and the baseball world has yawned.
We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world.
Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other.
The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.
I take a lot of pride in playing for the Yankees, and trying to do things the right way.
I have sensitive skin, so I don't use regular razors. The Yankees make us stay cleanly shaven!
I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?
The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.
My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?
Ever since I got drafted by the Yankees, I've been working on my swing.
I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better.
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.
Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.
You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.
The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings.
Dad was a pure entrepreneur. The dinner conversations weren't like, 'Did the Yankees win today?'
I'm very thankful to the Yankees and to Major League Baseball for allowing me to play this game.
At least, in this situation, I know my chances of coming back could be slim because of the young talent the Yankees do have.
I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here.
The guy stroked his goatee. "What do you call twenty guys watching the world series?" "The New York Yankees," Butch replied.
Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
I've liked the Yankees since I was a kid. I grew up in Canada so I kind of identified with New York sports teams.
When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both.
There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
Chicago started doing the same thing, bringing on young players in the beginning combined with veterans, and it worked for them. The Yankees are similar in that way.
So the guy who shot Gadhafi was wearing a Yankees cap. Did you see that? If he'd had a Boston Red Sox hat on he probably would have missed.
OK, he's a Yankees fan. Now I know why I don't like him.
I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.
What do they call that hat Jewish guys always wear? A Yankees cap.
The Yankees would be a much better team if they signed a proven closer instead of Tanaka.
When my Yankee career is over I'll play anywhere, but I'm positive that I'll never find a team quite like the Yankees.
In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.
The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.
I love working for Fox News, and I feel like I play for the Yankees every day. I'm with the best lineup in the business.
Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.
For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated.
The Marlins were close to signing me, but in the end my wish was to come back to the Yankees.
After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.
The Yankees have strict rules. You can have a mustache but no other facial hair.
I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
We want to try and transform the Red Sox into a team like the Braves or the Yankees, where you can almost count on the postseason every year.
I've been with the Yankees 17 years, watching games and learning. You can see a lot by observing.
I grew up an Indians fan my entire life. I was never really 'against' the Yankees, but I knew what they were capable of.
